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The 8th Amendment and the death penalty - back on the radar

Ruth Tarrant

20th October 2015

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Back in June, Stephen Breyer, a liberally-minded US Supreme Court justice said that tather than “try[ing] to patch up the death penalty’s legal wounds one at a time”, what is needed is a “full briefing on a more basic question: whether the death penalty violates the constitution.” The death penalty is now only used in a handful of states (some more vigorously than others).

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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